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The mention of solaris is interesting. The Gnome 2 based Java Desktop was part of what would be used to sell commercial institutions that had regulatory require
by easytiger 4y ago
The mention of solaris is interesting. The Gnome 2 based Java Desktop was part of what would be used to sell commercial institutions that had regulatory requirements for things like Accessibility (e.g. banks, government) - and it did win customers. This meant Sun put a lot of fixes into G2 upstream that helped stability and viability.
I used it natively on solaris 10 on a desktop for several years with few limitations or issues. You could even use it on a SunRay but the performance would never compete with the dolphins
Then, at a critical time it just kind of stopped being. Sad day indeed
- rzzzt 4y agoProject Looking Glass was also a Sun/Java thing that led the OSS 3D window effect bandwagon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Looking_Glass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Looking_Glass
- easytiger 4y agoYea i ran looking glass at the time to see it in operation. Sadly on commodity hardware the compositor was incredibly slow. But another project that just stopped. I too then got into the compiz craze of a fire animation when one minimised windows and a cube to change desktop. What happened to us. We used to have fun. The modern day linux/unix desktop is no better than it was 15 years ago